Building a Mystery

What remains hidden to me as a writer (and how I'm working with that)

image: Andrew Putschoegl

I know you now have Sarah McLauchlan in your head.

I’m sorry. At least to those who are my age and listened to that song (and album) endlessly in college. Or perhaps you welcome the nostalgia?

However, this is how writing this novel has come to feel. Not only is my main character following a trail of clues to solve the murder, so am I.

Here are the clues I’ve found in the last couple of weeks: